“Victory of the Cross”

Image by Getty Images via Daylife This week, we celebrate the “Victory of the Cross”.

In Nm 21:4-9, Yahweh brought the Israelites out of Egypt, and along the way sustained them with water and manna. He also protected them from enemy forces. We would think that the Israelites should be grateful, but all the while they were grumbling, so Yahweh sent poisonous snakes.

The Israelites recanted and begged Moses to intercede for them. At Yahweh’s bidding, Moses created a bronze serpent and set it on a standard. Whoever gazed upon the image of the serpent would be cured. Yahweh merely took the serpent, a common symbol of fertility at that time to cure the people.

In Jn 13-17, Yahweh would replace this makeshift salvation symbol of a serpent mounted on a standard with the image of Jesus Christ nailed on the cross. The Israelites who gazed at the serpent received a cure for their physical ailments.

People of all time who gazed upon the face of Jesus on the cross will be comforted and have everlasting life. Sometimes we forget to gaze upon Jesus and instead, think that we are capable of living life without him.

Feast of Corpus Christi

Over the week-end Catholics celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ.

I came across "Eucharist should make us attentive to needs of the poor, Benedict XVI teaches" and would like to share it here with you.

Click on the link to read yourself.

Let's make an effort to remember the needy every time we receive the holy communion.

God Bless You!

More on tithings....

In case you do not have the chance to read everything in the forum about tithings in my last post, here are some interesting links that you should read with regards to tithing:

Should the church teach tithing?

Will a man rob God?

Biblical model of giving

Pastor cannot defend tithing?

No more tithing!

What does the Bible say about Christian tithing?

Does God require me to tithe what I earn?

The truth about tithing